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Title: Forest Neighbors
Life Stories of Wild Animals

Author: William Davenport Hulbert

Release Date: January 29, 2009 [eBook #27933]

Language: English

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FOREST NEIGHBORS

_"And the Northern Lights come down,
To dance with the houseless snow;
And God, Who clears the grounding berg,
And steers the grinding floe,
He hears the cry of the little kit-fox,
And the lemming, on the snow."_

RUDYARD KIPLING.

[Illustration: _The Beaver Lumbering._]

FOREST NEIGHBORS

Life Stories of Wild Animals

by

WILLIAM DAVENPORT HULBERT

Illustrated

Doubleday, Page & Co.
Garden City
New York
1914

Copyright, 1900, 1901, and 1902, by
the S. S. Mcclure Co.

Copyright, 1902, by
Doubleday, Page & Co.

_To my Sister_
KATHARINE GRACE HULBERT

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION xi

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BEAVER 1

THE KING OF THE TROUT STREAM 41

THE STRENUOUS LIFE OF A CANADA LYNX 83

POINTERS FROM A PORCUPINE QUILL 125

THE ADVENTURES OF A LOON 163

THE MAKING OF A GLIMMERGLASS BUCK 199

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Beaver Lumbering _Frontispiece_

PAGE

"On the grass in the warm,